On Friday, the Obama administration offered yet another tweak to the accommodation process for employers objecting to complying with the contraception benefit in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). I have the basics of the rule change here, while Imani Gandy has this must-read piece on why the administration needs to stop fiddling with the rule and start defending it.

In addition to the legal challenges filed by the religious right challenging the birth control benefit in the ACA, apparently some insurance companies are trying to dodge covering contraception as well.

In response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Ferguson Police Department finally released its incident report in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9. Naturally the report is incomplete and, according to the ACLU, in violation of the law.

The conversation surrounding the killing of Michael Brown and the events in Ferguson, Missouri, needs to center on the value, or lack thereof, society places on Black lives.

We’re a long ways from justice for Michael Brown. Don’t miss Natasha Chart’s take here.

One of the police officers who was arresting journalists in Ferguson, Missouri, is the defendant in a civil rights lawsuit that accuses the officer of hog-tying and injuring a 12-year-old Black boy who was checking the mail at the end of his driveway.

This piece explains how a Supreme Court case from the 1980s may help shape the federal investigation into Michael Brown’s shooting and the Ferguson Police Department.